Majestic trip

I went to play some poker at Majestic Star casino in beautiful gary, indiana over the weekend. Rather would have been in Vegas, but oh well. The weather was bad but who cares, poker had to be played.
So, I get to the room (best in chicagoland until/unless Horseshoe opens up a new one) and check in--I had called ahead. I got my $100 max chips and sat down and was immediately scurred. There were some big stacks at the table, I mean some stacks approaching $1000. At a 100 max table. Hmmm. Either there are sharks present or there are fish present, probably both. But I held my own.
First big hand, I'm in sb w Q8. A couple of limpers, so I complete. Flop brings a Q, I check-call, and its heads up w BB. Turn is 8. I check, he bets 20-25, so I go all in and double up....pretty standard.
Another interesting hand I limp w A2 clubs. SB raises, BB calls, I call. Flop comes all clubs; i.e. the nuts. SB checks, BB bets, I smooth-cold-call, SB calls. Turn is another 5 (a 5 was on the flop). check, bet, I just call again, call. River is a J. So the final board is J5x5J w three clubs. Now sb bets $25, and BB goes apeshit and tosses his cards saying he flopped a flush and got rivered. Hmmmm. SB had a nonchalant look to him. He kept check calling throughout and then bet 25 on the river leaving himself less than 50. with the pot this large, wouldn't he just go all in? I of course am priced in to call 25 and sb flips QQ lol. funny thing is i thought about just putting him all in because at this point why not. oh well. i still won a nice pot.
I also won a nice pot w trip 22, one of my fav hands. ALso, had KK and flopped a boat with them.... so i'm up over $400 in a couple hours and can now understand why there were such big stacks to begin with.
But of course it would not last. what a shock. So i have AQ and raise to 15 in mp. sb calls and two others call. flop comes AQ5... uh ok. sb immediately goes all in for around less than 100. uh ok. i say soemthing like "i have to call you" and show my cards to him... now in retrospect that is bad luck something i learned from high stakes poker. never show your cards until after the hand, gotcha. because the turn came another 5 and he flips some bullshit like 57s for trips. great. so right after that i get 66, raise and say im on tilt. i get 18 callers. flop comes something like 7105, i fire, two callers. blank turn, i go all in. im only up against a big stack who is weak and predictably folds, and a "short" <100 stack who moved over from 3-6 limit. he was an older asian guy, and he called me. he has 88, and says he put me on AK or whatever. yeah i played it bad and didnt have to lose that much to the donk. anyways, i still ended up with a 200 profit for a few hours. next time im up 4 or 5 hundy, i'm racking and running.